Ukraine crisis: protesters camp out in Independence Square

Watch live coverage from Independence Square in Kiev as Ukraine's interim
leadership pledged to put the country back on course for European
integration now that Moscow-backed Viktor Yanukovych has been ousted from
the presidency

Protesters remain in Independence Square in Kiev as Ukraine's interim leadership pledged to put the country back on course for European integration now that Moscow-backed Viktor Yanukovych has been ousted from the presidency.

As rival neighbours east and west of the former Soviet republic said a power vacuum in Kiev must not lead to the country breaking apart, acting President Oleksander Turchinov said late on Sunday that Ukraine's new leaders wanted relations with Russia on a "new, equal and good-neighbourly footing that recognises and takes into account Ukraine's European choice".

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton will travel to Ukraine on Monday, where she is expected to discuss measures to shore up the ailing economy